Check yourself. 1. What phenomenon is called 'reduction'?

Questions and tasks:

1. What phenomenon is called 'reduction'?

2. In what kind of words do non-reduced vowels occur in un­-
stressed syllables? Give examples.

3. What degrees of reduction do you know?

4. Read the following sentence: 'I can read it alone.' What type
of reduction is observed in the word “can”?

5. Transcribe and read the sentence: 'He is right.' What type of
reduction is found in the word “he”?

6. Give examples to illustrate the verb to do in the reduced and
non-reduced forms.

7. Within what segments of speech is the reduction realized?

8. Suppose your fellow-student says: “Com'bine is a noun.”
What is his mistake? What will you tell him to do to correct
the mistake?

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